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At War with Women : Military Humanitarianism and Imperial Feminism in an Era of Permanent War / by Greenburg, Jennifer, 1983-

Table of Contents: “…Doctrinal Turning Points in the New Imperial Wars -- The "Social Work" of War : Techniques and Struggles to Remake Military Labor -- Colonial "Lessons Learned" : The Contemporary Soldier Becomes the Historical Colonizer -- Soothing Occupation : Gender and the Strategic Deployment of Emotional Labor -- A New Imperial Feminism : Color-Blind Racism and the Special Operation of Women's Rights.…”
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Women in Cleveland : An Illustrated History / by Morton, Marian J., 1937-

Table of Contents: “…1. Pioneering Women: Wives and Mothers, 1796-1830 -- 2. Defining Woman's Sphere: Women's Work, Religion, and Reform, 1830-1865 -- 3. …”
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Women and the Press : The Struggle for Equality / by Bradley, Patricia, 1941-

Table of Contents: “…"Are not women born as free as men?" -- The rise of the professional writer -- The legacy of reform -- The strains on sisterhood -- Domesticity and all its imperatives -- Negotiating the newsroom -- Negotiating the nation -- Finding a place -- The second wave -- Making a difference.…”
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Economic Women : Essays on Desire and Dispossession in Nineteenth-Century British Culture /

Table of Contents: “…Introducing economic women / Lana L. Dalley and Jill Rappoport -- Gentry, gender, and the moral economy during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars in provincial England / Kathryn Gleadle -- Women, free trade, and Harriet Martineau's Dawn Island at the 1845 Anti-Corn Law League bazaar / Leslee Thorne-Murphy -- Sacrificial value : beyond the cash nexus in George Eliot's Romola / Ilana M. …”
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Uncommon Women : Gender and Representation in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Women's Writing / by Laffrado, Laura

Table of Contents: “…"Without any resort to Amazonian conventions" : women, writing, representation -- "A more masculine courage" : women's voice and the nineteenth-century publication of Sarah Kemble Knight's Journal -- "Everything by turns and nothing long" : configurations of female selfhood in Fanny Fern's early periodical writing -- "How could you leave me alone when the room was full of men!" …”
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Unexceptional Women : Female Proprietors in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Albany, New York, 1830-1885 / by Lewis, Susan Ingalls, 1949-

Table of Contents: “…Unexceptional women : female proprietors in Albany, 1830-85 -- Female microentrepreneurs : linking stories and statistics -- Doing business : patterns and parameters -- Micronetworks and the family business economy -- Business or labor? …”
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Women and Romance : The Consolations of Gender in the English Novel / by Langbauer, Laurie

Table of Contents: “…Foreword / Shari Benstock and Celeste Schenck -- Acknowledgments / Laurie Langbauer -- Introduction -- The romance of history, or Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny, sometimes -- Diverting romance : Charlotte Lennox's The female Quixote -- An early romance : the ideology of the body in Mary Wollstonecraft's writing -- Streetwalkers and homebodies : Dickens's romantic women -- Recycling patriarchy's garbage : George Eliot's pessimism and the problem of a site for feminism -- Conclusion.…”
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Debating Women : Gender, Education, and Spaces for Argument, 1835-1945 / by Woods, Carly S.

Table of Contents: “…Making space for debating women -- "The first girls' debating club": creating a legacy at Oberlin College, 1835-1935 -- "Women of infinite variety": the Ladies' Edinburgh Debating Society as an intergenerational argument culture, 1865-1935 -- "Britain's brainy beauties": intercultural encounter on the 1928 British women's debate tour of the United States -- "Your gown is lovely, but -- " : negotiating citizenship at Pennsylvania state colleges, 1928-1945 -- Moving forward with debating women.…”
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Medieval Women and Their Objects /

Table of Contents: “…Collette / Arlyn Diamond -- Introduction: Medieval Women and Their Objects / Jenny Adams and Nancy Mason Bradbury -- Part 1. …”
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Transforming Women's Education : Liberal Arts and Music in Female Seminaries / by Smith, Jewel A., 1953-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Philosophies of women's education in the United States -- Beyond an accomplishment: A philosophy of music education -- The dawn of a new era in women's education -- Seminary structure: A comparison -- Curricula: Academic and ornamental -- Music education for a young lady -- Instrumental music at the seminaries -- Singing ladies: Vocal repertoire at the seminaries -- Afterword -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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Women in Mongol Iran : The Kahtuns, 1206-1335 / by De Nicola, Bruno

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the study of women in the Mongol Empire -- Women and politics from the steppes to world empire -- Regents and empresses : women's rule in the Mongols' world empire -- Political involvement and women's rule in the Ilkhanate -- Women and the economy of the Mongol Empire -- Mongol women's encounters with Eurasian religions -- Concluding remarks.…”
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From Old Woman to Older Women : Contemporary Culture and Women's Narratives / by Chivers, Sally, 1972-

Table of Contents: “…Old age, literature, and potential -- Situating old women : fields of inquiry -- The mirror has two faces : Simone de Beauvoir's and Margaret Laurence's ambivalent representations -- Generation gaps and the potential of grandmotherhood -- Here, every minute is ninety seconds : fictional perspectives on nursing home care -- Living life seriatim : friendship and interdependence in late-life fiction and semifiction.…”
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Women's Political and Social Thought : An Anthology /

Table of Contents: “…Appeal to the Christian women of the South ;…”
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European Women and Preindustrial Craft /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : a theoretical framework for women's work in forming the Industrial Revolution / Daryl M. …”
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French Women and the Age of Enlightenment /

Table of Contents: “…Women and the law / Adrienne Rogers -- Women and politics / Susan P. …”
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Women Poets and the American Sublime / by Diehl, Joanne Feit, 1947-

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Women and Work in Preindustrial Europe /

Table of Contents: “…Peasant women's work in the context of marriage. Peasant women's contribution to the home economy in late Medieval England / Barbara A. …”
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The Youth of Early Modern Women / by Reeves, Margaret

Table of Contents: “…Roman Maids Become Young Women circa 1600Elizabeth S. Cohen; 14. A Room of Their Own; Young Women, Courtship, and the Night in Early Modern England; Eleanor Hubbard; 15. …”
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Jane Austen among Women / by Kaplan, Deborah, 1950-

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Some Jewish Women in Antiquity / by Bar-Ilan, Meir

Table of Contents: “…Heroines -- Literate Women -- The Keening Women -- Prayers by Women -- Sorceresses -- Prostitutes.…”
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